🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year
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Kevin Zhu claims to have authored 113 AI research papers in a year, raising concerns about the quality of AI research. Critics argue that the pressure to publish leads to "vibe coding" and low-quality work. This surge overwhelms review systems and diminishes research quality.
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Antonio Forenza, head of R&D at Rakuten Symphony, realized a need for stress management wearables after personal success with Apple's fitness tracker. He developed Awear, a device using EEG to monitor brainwaves and stress. Awear, now a finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, has secured pre-seed funding and targets individual consumers.
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Meta has acquired AI startup Limitless, formerly known as Rewind. Limitless' AI-powered pendant will no longer be sold, and existing customers will receive support for a year without subscription fees. Limitless will assist Meta in developing AI-enabled wearables within Reality Labs.
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Anthropic is launching Claude Code, allowing developers to delegate coding tasks directly within Slack by analyzing chat context to manage workflows. This integration marks a shift from traditional IDEs towards collaboration tools, enhancing productivity but raising security concerns.
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A science journal retracted a 2000 paper endorsing the safety of Monsanto’s glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, citing "serious ethical concerns" over author independence and study integrity. Internal company emails revealed Monsanto's covert influence on the research.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: elasticsearch
(Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine.)
Why: Validates input and error handling, introducing junior developers to Elasticsearch's mapping logic.
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⭐ 3295, 🖖 100
Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.
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⭐ 3264, 🖖 293
🍌 500+ selected Nano Banana Pro prompts with images, multilingual support, and instant gallery preview. Open-source prompt engineering library
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⭐ 3728, 🖖 468
Scenic: A Jax Library for Computer Vision Research and Beyond
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⭐ 2408, 🖖 186
User Profile-Based Long-Term Memory for AI Chatbot Applications.
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⭐ 476, 🖖 61
Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems
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